Posted on 12/28/2006 11:31:38 AM PST by peggybac
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The new president of the University of Texas says he will appoint a panel to decide what to do with four bronze statues on the Austin campus that honor confederate leaders and have drawn complaints for several years. William Powers Jr., who took over as president this month, said the advisory committee would look into concerns about the statues, which include likenesses of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States, and Gen. Robert E. Lee. "A lot of students, and especially minority students, have raised concerns. And those are understandable and legitimate concerns. On the other hand, the statues have been here for a long time, and that's something we have to take into account as well," Powers said in Wednesday's Austin American-Statesman. The university's previous president, Larry Faulkner, wrote an open letter to the campus more than two years ago saying the statues convey "institutional nostalgia" for the Confederacy and its values. "Most who receive that message are repelled," Faulkner wrote. Statuary on the Austin campus has grown more diverse over the years, partly as a result of student-led efforts. A student fee raised funds to install a statue of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1999. Also in the works are statues of Hispanic labor leader Cesar Chavez and Barbara Jordan, the first black woman from the South elected to Congress.
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Now about that statue of Grant at the capital.
I hope what they decide to do with those 4 statues is put a plaque underneath them that says "Pay reparations to the white people who killed their brothers and fathers in order to free the slaves".
No other nation has ever killed their family and friends to free an ethnic group.
The carpet baggers have been moving in heavily since the early 90's.
Sounds like the narrow-minded students need to be educated on who these honorable men were. Would they complain if they were statues of Union soldiers? Probably. This may be more than simply a Confederate States issue and may be an anti-military issue as well.
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AH-AHH-AHHH....You used the "S" word! That might OFFEND some people, and we can't have that!........
"It's Reconstruction all over again."
Booming economies, low taxes and cheap real estate is bringing them in. The liberal carpet-baggers effed up their parts of the country now they are working on ours.
Get rid of ALL references to the Civil War era in any context and make it disappear...........
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PC Uber Alles
If the students have problems, maybe they need sensitivity training. Or how about lessons in history instead of hysteria?
Hmmm. What about the need for "diversity" in statues? Aren't other groups (like white southerners) entitled to "their" heroes in bronze too?
Okay.....we'll put statues of Buckwheat, Aunt Jemimah, and a Lawn Jockey next to those they want to remove, so we have equal representation!
That would be a good chant for a demonstration.
"History not hysteria. History not hysteria. History not hysteria. History not hysteria..."
Too bad conservatives never take to the barricades and kick leftist butt.
That's so close to reality, it ain't even funny.
Who was is that said "boating...not busing"? (Sounds like that would be a better idea)
Since Texas is among the most liberal universities going, in their place they will probably put statues of Jesse Jackson, Cindy Sheehan, Louis Farrakhan and Boy George!
Yep, yep - that's my alma mater. Just makes ya so PROUD! I guess the good thing is that it's no wackier-lib a place than when I graduated in '78.
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